Category Archives: Crime

Pair Arrested For Stealing Golf Cart In Grantham

Pair Arrested For Stealing Golf Cart In Grantham

(GDN) – The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office says 30-year-old Seth Alston Williams of Dudley and 27-year-old Caleb Michael Sexton of LaGrange were arrested and charged with Larceny of a Motor Vehicle. Deputies responded to 911 calls of two suspicious males walking on Sambo Lambert Road on March 2, 2022. They made contact with the two…read more »

UPDATE: Found Safe – Police Searching For Missing Child In Goldsboro

UPDATE: Found Safe – Police Searching For Missing Child In Goldsboro

(GDN) – Goldsboro Police need your help to locate a missing child.  They say 14-year-old Paige Crawford was last seen on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 in the 800 block of Lionel Street around 2:30pm. Paige is described as having green hair braids and wearing a black hoodie, black stretch pants and tye-dyed crocs.  Police say…read more »

Child Shot And Killed At Goldsboro Mobile Home Park

Child Shot And Killed At Goldsboro Mobile Home Park

(GDN) – Goldsboro Police report at about 4:20 a.m. this morning they responded to a shooting at Tanglewood Mobile Home Park located at 3201 Central Heights Road. The officers found that shots had been fired into one trailer at the location. Police say a 14-year-old boy inside the trailer was struck by gunfire and died…read more »

Two Car Accident Damages WCSO Vehicle

Two Car Accident Damages WCSO Vehicle

(GDN)-Firefighters from Pricetown along with an EMS unit were dispatched Saturday afternoon to the scene of a two vehicle accident involving a Wayne County Sheriff vehicle and a passenger vehicle at the intersection of Pineview Cemetery Road and Camp Jubilee Road. The Sheriff’s vehicle was on patrol in the area when it collided with a…read more »

St. Patrick’s Day ‘Booze It & Lose It’

St. Patrick’s Day ‘Booze It & Lose It’

With St. Patrick’s Day later this week, state officials are reminding people to never drink and drive. For the next week, law enforcement agencies statewide will increase patrols to keep impaired drivers off the roads during the St. Patrick’s Day “Booze It & Lose It” enforcement campaign. “We know alcohol tends to be a part of…read more »

Homicide Investigation Underway

Homicide Investigation Underway

On March 8, 2022, at approximately 9:07 p.m., Goldsboro Police Department’s “B” Shift responded to the area of 252 Wisteria Road in reference to a person that had been shot. Upon arrival, officers located Jeffery Devon Williams, a 37-year-old male victim suffering from a single gunshot wound. Medical personnel pronounced the male victim deceased on…read more »

Oliver Arrested & Charged

Oliver Arrested & Charged

On March 5th, 2022 at approximately 3:26 am, Wayne County Sheriff’s Deputies observed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed in a residential neighborhood. After the vehicle was stopped, the driver, Jacoby Devaughn Oliver, 21, appeared to be heavily intoxicated on alcohol and some other type of impairing substance. A search was conducted…read more »

Man Charged With Sex Offense/Kidnapping

Man Charged With Sex Offense/Kidnapping

On February 20, 2022, at approximately 9:10 p.m., officers with the Goldsboro Police Department’s Patrol Shift “C” responded to 1025 N. Spence Ave. for a report of a sexual assault. Officers made contact with the female juvenile victim who reported that she had been sexually assaulted by a known assailant. Patrol officers took the initial…read more »

Larceny of Auto Parts

Larceny of Auto Parts

On Feb. 24, 2022, officers from Goldsboro Police Department’s “A” Shift responded to the Goldsboro Fire Department in reference to a privately owned vehicle having the catalytic converter cut from underneath it. Travis Sauls reported to Police that unknown subject(s) cut the catalytic converter from his vehicle. The Criminal Investigations Bureau followed up on the…read more »

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